Churn construction.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

Ila-887,668.

G. H. LINNEY. GHURN CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.17, 1908.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. LINNEY, OF EMINENCE, KENTUCKY.

CHURN CONSTRUCTION.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. LINNEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Eminence, in the county of Henry and State of Kentucky, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Churn Construction; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in churnconstructions and my object is to provide means for supporting a churndasher and means to operate the same.

A further object is to provide means for mounting the support upon aplatform and a still further object is to provide means for adjustingthe dasher and operating mechanism at various heights above theplatform.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter referred to and moreparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are made a part of this application,Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a platform and means for mountingthe churn dasher and operating mechanism thereon. Fig. 2 is an elevationof a bracket employed for adjustably receiving the dasher supportingarm. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the dasher-supporting arm and one sectionof the tubular socket employed for holding the dasher shaft. Fig. 4 is asimilar view of the co6per ating portion of the socket. Fig. 5 is adetail sectional view showing the manner of se curing the supportingpost to the platform, and, Fig. 6 is a sectional view as seen on line6-6, Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates aplatform, which is preferably provided at each end with supports 2, saidplatform being adapted to receive and form a rest for any suitable formof churn body 3 (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1) and suspended abovethe platform and adapted to enter the churn body is a pair ofcooperating dashers 4 and 5, the dasher 4 being supported by avertically extending shaft 6, while the dasher 5 is rotatably mounted onsaid shaft above the dasher i by means of straps7 the upper ends ofwhich are secured to a collar 8 on the shaft 6, the downward movement ofsaid collar being limited by means of a Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 17, 1908.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Serial No. 421,644.

washer, or the like 9 fixed to the shaft 6 immediately below the collar.

The upper end of the shaft 6 is extended through a tubular socket, whichsocket is preferably formed in two sections 10 and 11, each sectionforming one-half of the socket, the section 10 being carried by an arm12, while the section 11 is secured to the arm by providing a tongue 13adjacent the center of the socket section 11 and providing the same witha slot 14, through which is adapted to take a bolt 15 on the arm 12, theend of said bolt being threaded to receive a wing nut 16, @y which meansthe tongue is clamped on the olt.

The rear end of the arm 12 is provided with a head 17, one face of whichis provided with corrugations or teeth 18, which are adapted to engagesimilar corrugations 19 on one face of a suspending bracket 20 and thecorrugations on the head are held in engagement with the corrugations onthe bracket by means of a bolt 21, which passes through an elongatedslot 22 in the bracket 20 and through an opening 23 in the head 17, oneend of the bolt being provided with a substantially square head 24,while the opposite end is adapted to receive a nut (not shown) and thusclamp the head in engagement with the bracket and as said bracket restsin a vertical position and is preferably longer than the head 17, saidhead and parts carried thereby may be adjusted vertically on the bracketto adjust the dashers at various heights from the platform 1.

To avoid the necessity of removing the bolt from the opening 23, inorder to remove the head from engagement with the bracket, the upper endof the slot 22 is provided with an enlarged opening 25 similar in sizeand contour to the bolt head 24, whereby when the nut on the bolt isadjusted to permit the corrugations to be disengaged from each other andthe head and parts carried thereby elevated to the upper end of theslot, the head on the bolt will readily pass through the enlargedopening 25 or may be introduced therethrough to again attach the head tothe bracket.

The bracket 20 is secured to a supporting standard 26 by providing onthe rear edge of said bracket, preferably at each end and centerthereof, ears 27, the ears at the ends of the bracket being providedwith openings to receive screws or the like 28, while the cars at thecenter of the bracketare adapted to bracket.

The lower end of the standard 26 is secured to the platform 1 byintroducing a bolt 29 through the platform and through a central opening30 in the lower end of the standard, the upper end of the opening 30terminating in a cavity 31, which cavity extends entirely through thestandard, whereby a nut 32 may be placed in position to engage the upperend of the bolt 29 and if desired, the width of the cavity may be suchas to hold the nut against rotation, whereby when the bolt is rotated,the threaded end thereof will engage the threads in the nut and clampthe standard securely on the platform or, as shown in the drawing, thecavity may be of such size to admit of the introduction of a wrenchintothe cavity to engage and hold the nut. This manner of securing thestandard to the platform will prevent independent movement of one of theparts from the other, but it is likewise necessary to hold the standardagainst rotation, whereby the dashers will be held in position over theplatform and to this end a pin 33 is secured in any preferred manner tothe upper face of the platform 1, the upwardly extending portion thereofentering a socket 34 in the lower end of the standard 26 and as said pinis located at a distance from the axial center ofthe standard, said pinwill serve to prevent rotation of the standard when the pin is enteredin its respective socket.

My object is to provide a device of this class which may be placed onthe market and sold as a commodity within itself without providing achurn body, as the dashers may e introduced into a jar and the contentsthereof churned equally as well as when introduced into a regular churnbody, thereby enabling me to materially reduce the cost of the article,my prime object being to provide a support for the object used as achurn body and also for suspending the dashers and operating mechanismin position to enter the churn body, the adjusting feature permittingthe dashers to be raised or lowered to enter churn bodies of variousheights.

In applying the device to use, a churn body containing a quantity ofprepared cream is placed on the platform 1 and the dashers introducedtherein in the usual manner, when the contents of the churn body may bethoroughly churned by im arting rotating motion to the dashers 4 ant 5,this operation being accomplished by providing a driving gear 35 havingon one of its faces teeth 36, which teeth are adapted to mesh with apinion 37 fixed to the shaft 6 above the socket sections 10 and 11 andwith a similar pinion 38 fixed to the collar 8 and adjacent the lowerend of the socket sections it will readily be seen that as the gear 35is rotated, the shaft 6 and dasher 4 carried thereby, will be revolvedin one direction, while the collar 8 and dasher 5 carried thereby willbe revolved in the oppo site direction thus increasing churningqualities of the dashers. Each of said dashers is provided at itsopposite ends with upwardly turned wings 39, which wings are p aced atopposite edges of the dashers. When the churning operation is com leted,the nut on the bolt 21 is loosened unt' the corrugations on the head andbracket are released from each other when the churning mechanism andsupporting arm therefor may be elevated and entirely removed fromengagement with the bracket. If, however, it is not desired to releasethe arm from the bracket, the socket section 11 is released and thedashers re moved from position on the arm and may then be lifted fromthe churn body.

WVhat I claim is:

1. A churn attachment comprising the combination with a standard, aplatform for the standard and means to removably secure the standard tothe platform; of a bracket having ears at the upper and lower ends andat the center thereof, means to secure said end ears to said standard,an arm having a head at one end thereof, the meeting faces of said headand bracket having interlocking corrugations thereon and means toadjustably secure the head to the bracket.

2. A churn attachment comprising the combination with a platform, astandard on the platform and means to removably secure the standard tothe latform; of a bracket secured to said stan ard adjacent its upperend, said bracket having a vertically extending slot terminating at itsupper end in an enlarged opening, -a supporting arm having a head at oneend adapted to cooperate with said bracket, the meeting faces of saidhead and bracket having inter-meshing corrugations thereon, a boltadapted to extend through said slot and head and hold the corrugationson the head in engagement with the corrugations on the bracket, saidbolt having a head at one end in size and contour to fit and passthrough the enlarged o ening at the upper end of the slot, where y thearm may be removed from the bracket with out disengaging the bolt fromthe head on the arm.

3. In a churn attachment,'the combination with a bracket, an armadjustably secured to said bracket and the churning mechanism carried bythe arm; of a vertically disposed standard adapted to receive andsupport said bracket, said standard having a vertical opening extendingupwardly from its lower end and a cavity extending laterally through thestandard and communicating with the upper end of said opening, a

platform to su port the standard, a bolt eX- In testimony whereof I havesigned my tended throug the platform and through name to thisspecification in the presence of the opening in the ost, a nut adaptedto entwo subscribing witnesses.

ter said cavity an engage the upper end of CHARLES H. LINNEY. .3 thebolt and a pin carried by the platform \Vitnesses:

adapted to engage and hold the standard J. R. VVICKEY,

against rotation on the bolt. J. H. BOWLING.

